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Bajan USCian Wins B'dos Calypso Crown

The Bajan USCian community, if not also the rest of the University of the Southern Caribbean (USC) family in the eastern and southern Caribbean, is still abuzz with the news that one of our own recently won the coveted 2013 Barbados calypso monarch competition.  Although our largely conservative-evangelical Christian culture eschews the calypso genre for its perceived worldliness, misogyny and objectification of women, we celebrate our fellow alum's obvious talents and hope and pray for him that he would soon return them to the higher joy and greater service for which they were given.  By way of reminder, Mr. Webster is also one of the composers of the current USC School Song.

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US Lieutenant Colonel To Speak At His Barbados High School's 60th

LTC Harewood

In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Barbados S.D.A. Secondary School, Pastor Dr. Andrew R. Harewood, a past student of the school and a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army, will be the featured speaker at a commemorative service on Sabbath, August 10, 2013 at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre beginning at 9:00 a.m.

"Born on the 1st December, LTC Andrew R. Harewood first entered military service as an enlisted soldier in 1990. Following five years of service as a 71M, LTC Harewood completed both Master’s and Doctoral Degrees at Howard University, Washington, D.C. and was the Howard University 1995 recipient of the Henry G. Mayard Scholastic Award. Prior to his commission, he served with the 92nd Field Hospital, and 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment.

LTC Harewood was commissioned 1st Lieutenant, in 1996, while assigned to the 310th Theater Area Army Command. His subsequent assignments have included 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland; 109th Detachment Team at Willow Grove Naval Air Station, Pennsylvania, responsible for providing Religious Area Coverage to the soldiers of the 656th ASG, Willow Grove, PA, 453rd Finance Group, New Cumberland, PA and the 413th Adjutants General Company, Bristol, Pennsylvania. LTC Harewood has deployed to Central America (1994), Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003), and to Combined Forces Command Afghanistan (2006).

After redeployment in 2007, LTC Harewood was assigned to the Pentagon in the Office of the Chief Chaplain as the Force Management Integration Action Officer, and in 2008 was assigned to the Office of the Secretary of The Army as the Deputy Pentagon Chaplain until September 2010. From October 2010 until December 2011 LTC Harewood served as Logistics, Information and Resources (4/6/8) Manger for the United States Army Reserve Command Presently, LTC Harewood is the Deputy Command Chaplain of Army Support Activity-Dix, on Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst.

Chaplain (LTC) Andrew Ricardo Harewood is a graduate of the U.S. Army Non-Commissioned Officers Academy (1995), the U.S. Army Chaplain Center & School Officer’s Basis Course (2000), Resource Manager Course (2001), Advance Career Course (2003), The Army Force Management Staff College (2007), U.S. ARMY Command and General Staff College (2009). LTC holds additional certifications in Theology, Counseling Psychology and Clinical Pastoral Education (C.P.E). In addition, Trauma counselor, Crisis Management Intervention, Mental Health Counseling are components of his comprehensive training.

LTC Harewood is a certified trainer of Living Works Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), Myers Briggs Type Indicator, trainer of The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program.

LTC Harewood military awards and decorations include the Joint Meritorious Unit Award, The Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the NATO Medal, the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal and citations from The White House, Pennsylvania Senate and various other civic and denomination awards.

LTC Harewood is married to Karen Annette, a Medical Doctor, and they have four sons. His hobbies include reading, distance running, billiards, scuba diving, and devising creative and educational methods of comprehensive leadership. Andrew’s life motto is, “Don’t tell me, show me”!" (http://www.dix.army.mil/Chapel/bios/chapel_biographies.html)

LTC Harewood is an ordained SDA Minister and currently serves the Fourth Street-Friendship Church in Washington, D.C. in the Allegheny East Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

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Seeing 60/60

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The Barbados Seventh-day Adventist Secondary School ticked off another item in its year-long celebration of the 60th anniversary of its founding when last night, July 9, 2013, sixty (60) students were graduated from the institution in a ceremony which not even Tropical Storm Chantal could curtail.  Pastor Dr. Kern Tobias, President of the Caribbean Union Conference of SDA, delivered the feature address, and the school's first Head Girl, Dolores Rudder-Pierce, distributed the certificates and tokens.  Dolores is pictured above (5th from right) along with several of her fellow schoolmates from 1953 together with the two surviving first teachers of the school - Professor Rudolph Allen who also taught at USC in the 1950s (second from right), and Ishbel Bayne, a USC alumna who was later Principal of the school for many years (third from right).  The late Lucy May Kum and B.G.O. French, who also served at USC (the latter as President) were the other founding teachers of the school.  60th anniversary celebrations will continue next month with a homecoming week of activities and in September with a Back-To-School Day and a major concert in aid of the rebuilding of the school hall featuring the famous Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir from the USA.

@USCBarbados Tops Twitter #barbados

It probably doesn't mean much and it certainly will not last too long, but two of our recent @USCBarbados images currently top the #barbados Twitter hashtag.  One photo is of our dearly departed USC alumna and veteran BSDASS teacher- Ferris Scott, and the other associated with the upcoming concert  in aid of rebuilding the BSDASS school hall featuring the world-famous Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.  If you are a Twitter user, follow @USCBarbados for all the latest news, information and inspiration for the Barbados USC/SDA community and friends.

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Barbados SDA Secondary School Alumni Association's Sabbath Celebration at the Sugar Hill SDA Church on June 29, 2013.

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Pastor Roosevelt Daniels, Divinitatis Doctor

Dr. Clinton Valley (President of USC - left) and Dr. Kern Tobias
 (Chairman of the Board of USC and President of the Caribbean Union
Of SDA - right) hooding PR. Dr. Roosevelt Daniels, DD

At its most recent Commencement just over two weeks ago held on the campus of the University of Trinidad & Tobago, the University of the Southern Caribbean conferred upon Pastor Roosevelt Daniels the honourary degree Doctor of Divinity.  Pastor Daniels (now retired) was cited for his outstanding service as an Evangelist in the Caribbean Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and abroad.  With the anointing of the Holy Spirit Pastor Daniels led more than 20,000 souls to Christ and the Church through baptism.

President Valley noted that the conferral ceremony was particularly emotional for himself as he and Pastor Daniels were not only classmates (USC [then CUC] Class of 1976), but together with David Williams and Gosnell Yorke graduated with honours.  The other three went on to gain graduate degrees but although Pastor Daniels was accepted into graduate school he decided instead to forgo it for the mission field.  Dr. Gosnell Yorke serves with distinction in Africa and Dr. David Williams is a tenured professor at the prestigious Harvard University.

Pastor Daniels is no stranger to Barbados having conducted several successful evangelistic series here including the final one of his evangelism career which was held last year under a large tent pitched on the grounds of the MAQ SDA Church at Hopeland, St. Peter.